I mean, some people--like myself--are already paying for Google's multi-language speech recognition API, and have been for years, so the idea that there is a new even-better model for it sounds cool to me? My primary annoyance is that this is Google, so of course they aren't going to put in even the minimal effort to just make this a new backend for their existing ridiculously-insane API I had to build a miserable slightly-custom http/2 stack to access :/.

Regardless, I don't want to use the API, but I'm working with public information anyway; and so, while I have considered moving to Whisper now that that's an option, it hasn't been a priority and it isn't clear to me that Whisper is good at random non-English languages anyway.